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jonog Member Registered: 2012-01-19 Posts: 7 [Solved] Pacman: Could not determine root mount point I recently tried doing an update, the new pacman installed fine, but when trying to add the remaining new packages I
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get errors about my root mount point. I dont think pacman is at fault error: could not open file: /etc/mtab: no such file or directory because both mtab and df show the root fs is absent.About a week ago, after a different update my system
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did not start the kde-desktop and I was taken to a shell with a read-only drive. I got around this by configuring fstab with an arch-usb, but it seems like things aren't fully back arch linux partition too full to the way they were. I've been noticing failures on shutdown/reboot, but the output is too quick for me to post them.I believe my probelm could be due to either fstab or the initscripts, as I updated my system without reading the news beforehand (a lession learned).Thanks for any help/advice!error: could not determine root mount point / error: not enough free disk space error: failed to commit arch-chroot command not found transaction (not enough free disk space) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.fstabtmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2mtabtmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/sda2 /home ext4 rw,noatime 0 0dfFilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 14761044 6612968 7398244 48% /tmp /dev/sda2 14761044 6612968 7398244 48% /home Last edited by jonog (2012-01-20 02:29:12) Offline #2 2012-01-20 01:12:47 karol Archivist Registered: 2009-05-06 Posts: 25,433 Re: [Solved] Pacman: Could not determine root mount point What's the output of 'df -i'?Have you tried disabling CheckSpace in pacman.conf? Offline #3 2012-01-20 01:42:30 Allan is always right From: Brisbane, AU Registered: 2007-06-09 Posts: 10,445 Website Re: [Solved] Pacman: Could not determine root mount point Is you /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/sefl/mounts? Send a Postcard! | Blog | PGP Key: F99FFE0FEAE999BD | Hapkido Brisbane Offline #4 2012-01-20 01:43:05 jonog Member Registered: 2012-01-19 Posts: 7 Re: [Solved] Pacman: Could not determine root mount point Hi karol, thanks for your helpdf -iFilesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on tmpfs 938400 105906 832494 12% /tmp /dev/sda2 938400 105906 832494 12% /homeCommenting "CheckSpace" and running "pacman -Syu" got the update to work. However, I still have the shutdown/reboot errors. Sh
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note). [2016.08.26] DeployStudio build v1.6.19 (release note). [2013.02.23] DeployStudio last universal build v1.5.17 (release note). Index »Usage »No mount http://www.deploystudio.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?id=3745 point for /Volumes/Macintosh HD, Can't determine mount poin Pages: 1 #1 2012-05-14 02:12:22 hdsst3 Member Registered: 2008-11-26 No mount point for /Volumes/Macintosh HD, Can't determine mount poin Hi All,My DeployStudio workflow consists of Restore an image then I run Generic task script ds_change_startup_macintoshHD.sh to set my start up disk. I've could not been getting this error.May 13 01:26:38] ds_change_startup_macintoshHD.sh - v2.1 (Sun May 13 01:26:38 UTC 2012)[May 13 01:26:38] No mount point for /Volumes/Macintosh HD[May 13 01:26:38] Can't determine mount point of '/Volumes/Macintosh HD'[May 13 01:26:38] Could not statfs() /Volumes/Macintosh HD[May 13 01:26:38] Could not determine filesystem of /Volumes/Macintosh HD[May 13 01:26:38] could not open -> Generic task action completed.[May 13 01:26:38] Task failure (elapsed time: 0.00 minutes)I don't exactly know the what problem is. I Would apprecaite some help on how to fiX this because I need to add more to work flow but without that step working, Deploy Studio aborts. The entire log file IS below.Please help,Thanks[May 13 00:50:00] ====================================================================================================[May 13 00:50:00] DeployStudio Runtime[May 13 00:50:00] DSCore.framework version 1.0rc131b (b120406), Copyright 2012 The DeployStudio Team.[May 13 00:50:00] MAC address: 00:26:4a:16:e8:04[May 13 00:50:00] Network address: 149.152.134.28 (macbookpro-00264a16e804.local)[May 13 00:50:00] Network interface speed: AUTOSELECT (100BASETX